A private residence on Long Island with a marina-front backyard. The owner wanted a year-round pool and sunroom that could open fully to the water view in good weather and close to a weather-tight, glazed indoor space in the colder months — without ever feeling like a conventional conservatory.
A private residence on Long Island with a marina-front backyard. The owner wanted a year-round pool and sunroom that could open fully to the water view in good weather and close to a weather-tight, glazed indoor space in the colder months — without ever feeling like a conventional conservatory.
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The brief was simple to state and hard to execute: retractable glass walls large enough to make the pool genuinely outdoor in summer, weather-tight enough to make it genuinely indoor in winter, and visually quiet enough that neither mode looked like an add-on. We specified a top-hung sliding and folding glass wall system on the long elevation, with secondary sliding panels on the side, all on low-threshold tracks that the pool deck could run through.
Glazing was the other half of the design. We used a low-iron, double-glazed insulating unit with a soft Low-E coating to keep the winter heat in and the summer heat out without tinting the water view. The vertical mullions were kept as slim as the structural calculations allowed, so the closed-room state still reads as a glass room — not a wall with windows punched into it.
Our scope was the complete enclosure design package and factory fabrication of the aluminium framing, glass units, tracks and hardware. The consignment shipped in two sequenced crates; the local general contractor's crew erected the structure and glazing, with our supervising engineer on site for the critical alignment of the head tracks and the first-panel water-test.
The enclosure now lets the owner swim in full marina-view mode from spring through autumn, and close the room for winter use. The maintenance team works from the panel-by-panel manual we provided; every glass unit is replaceable from inside without disturbing the structure.
Design, Supply + on-site installation guidance
85 m² retractable glass pool enclosure — designed, fabricated and export-supplied from our plant
Top-hung sliding and folding glass wall system, slim vertical mullions, low-iron double-glazed Low-E units
Local crew erected the enclosure under our supervising engineer's on-site guidance
Year-round use achieved — open to the marina in summer, fully glazed and weather-tight in winter
“We use the pool ten months a year now. The room disappears in July and comes back in November, and from inside the water view never changes.”
— Homeowner, Long Island
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02 · Site context
03 · Site record
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